New iMac - buy now?

I'm planning to order an iMac tomorrow but I'm afraid of those freezing issues, bad screens etc. Do they still affect the 20" 2,0 GHz iMac? If I'm planning to leave the country, should I unbox my iMac before to check if it's OK? And what about 10.5.1, is it already shipping?

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I'm planning to order an iMac tomorrow but I'm afraid of those freezing issues, bad screens etc. Do they still affect the 20" 2,0 GHz iMac? If I'm planning to leave the country, should I unbox my iMac before to check if it's OK? And what about 10.5.1, is it already shipping?

Thanks in advance!

But correct me if I'm wrong but, from what I've heard, the freezing issue doesn't affect the 2.0Ghz iMac.

Your iMac should be fine, you can take it out to look at it if you want but it shouldn't really matter.

My new 24" iMac had one dead pixel, Apple asserted they we're going to replace it. My new new one arrived today, the fucking thing is in a Tiger box, with Tiger installed. Apple can go shove it if they think I'm taking it. Give me my fucking Leo iMac already.

Congrats, you're the FIRST person I've heard of not having issues with the new iMac.

This is strange, the aluminium iMac is virtually identical to the older white one. I cannot see how changing the enclosure and using a less powerful GPU (so less heat -- in theory at least) could create so many problems. Well, apart the well documented one with the freezing that seems already fixed.

This is strange, the aluminium iMac is virtually identical to the older white one. I cannot see how changing the enclosure and using a less powerful GPU (so less heat -- in theory at least) could create so many problems. Well, apart the well documented one with the freezing that seems already fixed.

You left out the huge screen discoloration problem that is present on 95% of all of the new 20" iMacs. Not to mention the disturbingly high dead/stuck pixel rate.

It's a beautiful machine. A great all in one. But I'd wait for the Penryn bump and AMD have release cooler running GPUs that perform much better than the current 'disaster' (it's not totally bad...but for a machine with a high end price...where is a high end gpu option? Only APple...)

Power consumption was measured at the wall using a Kill-A-Watt meter. Power consumption under load was measured during the Canyon Flight test in 3DMark 2006. That particular test draws more power than any of the benchmark runs I observed, which is why I've used it. Aero Glass was shut off for all idle power testing.

The ATI 3850 and 3870 are every bit the power sippers ATI claimed they would be, drawing just 100W and 105W at the wall in idle mode. The 2900XT, in contrast, draws 50 percent more power while doing nothing, at 155W. At least some of this improvement is likely due to ATI's PowerPlay technology, which is present on the HD 3800 series as well as the company's upcoming Mobility Radeon 2000 parts.

Under load the standings don't change. At 275W, the 8800GT uses a fair bit more power than either of the 3800 series, but falls well short of the 2900XT at 315W.

Surely we could have Apple include one of these for the iMac? As an option?

I bought an 20" 2.0GHz iMac a few weeks ago and I love it. It came with Tiger pre-installed and a Leopard upgrade CD in the box, which is great because it gives me the choice of running either version.

I have heard people comaplain about the screen, but I find it hard to fault. It certainly beats any budget LCD that you typically see in homes and offices these days. It's on a par with the professonal HP screen that I was using until the Mac came along.